Dexter. I’m on season 7 now and binge watching it. It isn’t even that good, I rated it 3/5 stars. There are so many fucking plot holes that it is hard to take it seriously but I figure I’ve come this far I might as well watch the last 20 some episodes.
The older Duggar daughters are very easy on the eyes, which makes it easier to watch the show the handful of times I’ve seen it.
I did that once. Then she brought her shit into *my *Facebook timeline and I had to unfriend her.
I agree, time is too short to waste it watching a TV show I hate. And while most of my TV viewing is actually TV listening (I’ll put on the TV for background noise while I’m cartooning at the drawing board) I still can’t waste it listening to something I don’t like or hate.
Though if I ver feel like “Stupid-Watching” I may put FOX News on, but I can only stand about 5 minutes of stupidity before I’m scrambling for the remote.
Glee, though it eventually go so bad I couldn’t even hate watch.
I used to hate watch Jersey Shore, back when it was on. Well, I guess it was more of a stupid watch. When I was in grad school, it was kind of fun to turn my brain off now and again. Ridiculous show, I know.
The Walking Dead has been this for me for some time.
Richie Rich on Netflix. When I was a kid I used to collect Richie Rich comics, so when I found out there was going to be a show, I watched the first episode for nostalgia’s sake. It was so irredeemably, hideously, massively bad that of course I had to watch the other ten episodes. It was like a train wreck. I couldn’t look away.
Hint: They didn’t get any better.
(I watched them while walking on my treadmill, so I could have something to make my brains dribble out my ears and thus didn’t have to think about.)
One of the greatest piece of writing on hate watching is from Pilot Viruet who hate watched every episode of Two and a Half Men.
Right now we’re watching “The Royals”, or as I call it “Princess Skank Hour” or “Everybody on this show is a douchebag except that one character.”
I don’t but I have several friends who do this!
My hate-watch shows are
Sister Wives - I hate the husband so much, but I keep watching to see if one of the wives wakes up and leaves that whole mess.
2 Broke Girls - everything about this show is awful but it’s like…I can’t fucking stop.
Girls - I actually figured out that you are supposed to hate these people and that makes the show much more enjoyable. Before the episode where they went to the beach house they bothered me. Now their lives are all failing and I’m like “oh, good! Let’s see how awful these idiots are this week!”
ETA: Yikes! I seem to have a problem with women…
I missed The X-Files when it was on years ago, but my husband liked it. So we’ve started watching it on Netflix and I have a blast ragging on it. Although it would still be better if someone would turn the damn lights on.
We also watch Hell’s Kitchen, which is scripted, nasty, stupid, and irresistible. How come nobody ever gets on this show who knows how to cook beef wellington, risotto, or scallops? Stupid dunkie, you’re going to kill somebody! Get out!
A co-worker and I used to watch this show so we could come in the next morning and talk about how stupid it was. Good times.
These days I don’t make enough time for shows I’d unironically want to watch, much less shows I dislike.
Who isn’t a douchebag on this show? I’ve racked my brain and cannot think of a single person with any redeeming qualities. This is a great example though;once Mad Men finishes I will go back to watching The Royals. I’m sure it’s even worse than the first few episodes I watched.
My biggest one - and I don’t know if it counts because I’m pretty sure you’re *supposed *to hate it- is Say Yes to the Dress.Holy cats, what a bunch of unappealing, stupid bridezillas. I love shows about fashion but I don’t really care for wedding dresses as a rule. Most of the crap these women try on is the epitome of what I hate about them. Do women really bring an entourage with them when they pick out a dress? The only thing more deliciously awful are the episodes where the bridesmaids are picking out their dresses. Why anyone would have absolute bitches as friends is beyond me but I admit I eat it up.
I could only stomach one episode. So the Prince of Wales dies and his casket is covered with The Union Jack? The head of the security for the royals lives in an apartment behind the face of Big Ben? Pathetic acting, pathetic writing. E! should stick to the Kardashians.
Mine was Under The Dome. I even hate-read the book to see if it sucked as bad as the show. Well, maybe a little less but my first Stephen King experience was not overwhelming. Back to the show. Sometimes the Dome is a magnet. Sometimes it shocks people. It shrinks. It stops. Julia and her ever-perfect hair. Swimming to rescue someone moments after getting off a perfectly running boat.
Can’t believe I’m the first to say Big Bang Theory.
Sheldon is such an insufferable character that I get physically angry when he’s on screen, but the other characters are funny/lovable enough for me to live with the show
That being said, I am hate watching it every week
Way back when, but … 24.
Awful terrible show that I began to enjoy as a comedy, although I don’t think it was intended as such. Particularly I liked the daughter who was kidnapped daily.
I liked 24 for the same reason I liked the Die Hard movies. They’re so over the top, they’re hilarious.
I am with you. My girlfriend is a HUGE fan of the books, and even she is saying how lame the show is. It started out “okay”, and has been declining ever since.
This past Saturday’s show, May 9th, was a new low. I even asked if the singing act was in the book, and my girlfriend indicated it wasn’t. Even she was pretty discouraged by Saturday’s show. (She’s now given me permission to not watch it)
The King?